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\f0\b\fs24 \cf0 Greenland Was Hotter than New York City Last Week
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by Katie Herzog\
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\cf0 June 15, 2016 \'96 Greenland, the Arctic\'a0nation that is basically one huge ice cube, is feeling\'a0rather\'a0balmy lately.\
The island\'a0experienced the highest temperatures ever recorded on June 9, when air temperature in Nuuk, the capital city, soared to 75\'b0F. While that\'a0may seem like no sweat,\'a0the average high for this time of year between 1961 and 1990 was just 44\'b0F, and even\'a0Greenland\'92s hottest month rarely broke 50.\
But that was then. That record-breaking day in June was hotter in Nuuk than it was in New York City, while\'a0a heat wave in April saw warmer weather\'a0in Greenland than in Boston.\
All this hot air caused the sea ice off \'a0Greenland, which is the size of Texas, to begin thawing\'a0nearly 6 weeks before normal this year. The rapid melting of over\'a012% of the ice sheet was so unusual in April, that Danish Meteorological Institute scientist\'a0Peter Langen\'a0said\'a0they \'93had to check that our models were still working properly.\'94\
It\'92s a bad omen of what\'92s to come, as climate change ramps up. Scientists predict that if the Greenland ice shelf melted entirely, global seas would rise\'a0by more than\'a020 feet.\
Granted, Greenland has a lot of ice, and melting all of it could take a few 100 years. By then, Greenland \'97 and most coastal areas \'97 will be gone for good.\
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\cf0 grist.org/climate-energy/greenland-was-hotter-than-new-york-city-last-week/}